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Someone had the "wisdom" almost 75 years ago to film this, and gift it to us as a time capsule!! Thank you so much!!!!

Those weren't just automobiles....those were rolling works of art

Brought me to tears. I was born not long after that was made. Brings it all back: the wide, un-crowded streets lined with trees, the openness, the sense of order and clean-ness and safety and unity. The Los Angeles that was and will never be again.

Imagine being there in 1952 - all the big Hollywood stars still alive and working. What an experience!

Everything looks beautiful. The roads. The cars. The buildings. The people. The plants. Just amazing.

I never thought I’d find footage like this so captivating, but I did and loved it. It’s the actual 50’s. Not 50s movies, 50s Hollywood, but actual normal life 50s. Amazing.

This is GREAT. I'm so glad somebody filmed this in the day. Also, "Singing In The Rain" on the movie marquee. I could sit and watch these cars an old signs for an hour.

Love this! It was the time when my parents were young. My mom was from a small Texas farming town and my dad was from Ada, Oklahoma. I was born in 1951 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley and rode in cars like those shown. Thank you for posting!

I currently live in LA and I gotta say this is truly breath taking to see Los Angeles in it's days of glory. No traffic. no trash in the streets and most of all no tents and drug addicts. It's amazing how this beautiful city has turned to crap :( These videos are magnificent, Please keep sharing the world needs this.

I love this video! I grew up in Southern California and this is exactly what my world looked like when I was a child.

Passed my old street. Many buildings remain today, many are gone. Pep Boys (now at Hollywood & Gower) is a surprise that it existed in 1952. Tiny Naylor's diner with waitresses on roller skates was there till the 80s at La Brea. I walked those streets for 23 years. Ralph's (still there) at Poinsettia was my walk-to market. Notice no parking meters. Much more traffic today and homeless on sidewalks now. Chateau Marmont of course still there. Greenblatt's Deli closed permanently due to the pandemic. Thanks for the video - with amazing resolution. What a trip.

Since the late 1970’s I was obsessed with the 1950’s. I would fantasize how life was, simpler and peaceful. I was only in my early teens. I collected 1950’s magazines, and toys. Of course as time went on I became obsessed with the 20’s 30’s and 40’s and Old Hollywood and to this day I collect from those decades. Watching this 1952 video I feel like I’m in the back seat taking a trip back to 1952. The stores, the people, automobiles. California was truly beautiful then. So much is gone. Life was more tranquil, people well dressed not in a rush, cars at some distance from one another. Simply beautiful era. Ciro’s where the greats of Old Hollywood socialized, Singin’ In The Rain playing in the theater, Sigh. Great footageTY! It’s like stepping back in time.

She’s got to be the most amazing and fantastic video I have ever seen in my life! I am 71 years old just really takes me back. Thank you so much

Hey! Look at that semaphore traffic light switching from "GO" to "STOP" at 0:31 (this iconic traffic signal pretty much unique to the L.A. area was phased out of use by 1956). Also, notice the "Chicken in the Rough" restaurant on the left at 0:13. That was a chain restaurant throughout much of the U.S. that served fried chicken. Thanks for sharing this trip back in time!

Pretty amazing to see Sunset from back then. Almost none of it is the same. Almost all of the buildings are even gone. Chateau Marmont is still there (as is the little corner stairs) and there is still a Ralphs at the corner of Sunset and Fuller. So cool to take a drive down a road I know so well from back in history. Thanks, NASS!

I can't tell you how much enjoyment I get out of watching your videos, thank you! As the very proud owner of a somewhat beat up, but still presentable 1951 Buick Roadmaster I spent a lot of time watching this video trying to pick out any contemporaries of my car and I was surprised on how many I found! It's so great to see what can be done with this vintage footage using todays tech. It's like looking through a window into the past, please keep up the great work!!

Everyone loves the cars...I do too. But I REALLY love all those giant rooftop signs. (Ralph's, Pep Boys, etc.)

@2:04 Passing "Crossroads of the World" on the left. 6671 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Trivia: Built in 1936 - and still standing today - Crossroads of the World is considered America's first outdoor shopping mall. It was built by the widow of 'purported' gangster Charles H. Crawford, who owned - and was murdered on the property in 1931. The iconic Hollywood structure has been featured in many films, including L.A. Confidential, Indecent Proposal, and Argo.

I absolutely love these videos and appreciate the effort that went into colorizing them. It's not the same seeing the area in black and white Noir movies. Los Angeles has lost a lot of its style over the past few decades and hopefully these videos will make people understand why it's a loss when an old building is replaced by some tasteless, styleless concrete block. Keep up the good work.

A magical time travelling experience. Such a feast for the eye to behold. Stunning and beautiful. What a gorgeous place!!!

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Amazing how much is the same, just less clutter. It's interesting to note that that Mobil station on the corner of Sunset and Fairfax has been there for 70 years! Thanks for sharing.

Love these videos. Feels like going back in time. Don't see footage like this, this good.

These are the L.A. Streets that an aspiring young actor was cruising around on with his Triumph motorcycle. His name was Jimmy Dean and he hung out with friends at Googies Diner 8:30 on Sunset next to the former and famous Schwabs drugstore highlighted in the film Sunset Blvd starring William Holden...from there he'd race up Laurel Canyon to Mulholland. 8:50 Chateau Marmont and the start of the Sunset Strip. Sunset Tower Hotel 10:40 where Dick Powell played Phillip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet looking out over the city from the top and the villain says "On clear days, Mr. Marlow, you can see the ships in the harbor at San Pedro."

Great image quality on this one. It's so cool to see all the old cars driving on the streets. Like a driving museum.

Amazing how much more familiar this feels compared to the videos of the 1920's and older. Things changed rapidly in just a few decades.

This is the greatest channel there is. I can not get enough of the videos and restoration. Just stunning! I've shared with everyone!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Amazing! My father grew up in the 50s and he is the most talented person I have ever known. Makes me think fondly of that era in our history.

I love these videos, no music, just the sounds of the streets, buildings and the cars and so well restored and partially colorized. I find them so relaxing and watch them to relax before bed. To see all those old cars in their former glory and what it looked like in peoples everyday lives. I’m 51, and it’s amazing to see some video of two decades before I was born, thats like 70 years ago.

This was a time when people had enough respect to never litter. It wasn’t until the 60;’s signs were posted along the streets warning of a $100 fine for littering.

Great job on the filtering. Some driver behaviors never change :)

Surreal like driving through a dream of a calmer more peaceful time with clean streets classy cars and well dressed citizens very charming indeed.

It's just like having a Time Machine. Thanks for posting!

HISTORIC DESCRIPTION: This video travels from Cahuenga Blvd. to N. Olive Dr. (approx. 2.5 miles) on the Sunset Strip. It took them 11 minutes to drive in 1952, and it takes exactly the same amount of time today. You can see many old buildings, ie: (from east to west): The Hollywood Athletic club (missing its original covered walkway), Blessed Sacrament church (with a re-designed tower), Ralph's (which used to sit closer to Sunset Blvd.) Chateau Marmont (with its original stone entryway), Piazza Del Sol (which now contains Katana restaurant, the old villa Rosa apartment building (which is now a food broker business). Additionally, you can still see the same groupings of tall palm trees exactly where they always were.

Everything looks beautiful !!!

I love the way you clean up this vintage film footage, it's like seeing that era through todays eyes.

I'd love to get a split screen of this with someone driving down the same road in modern days so you can compare how things have changed!

Incredible work , thank you for this journey through time...

I gotta say thank you for this trip back in time. Raised in L.A. born in 1952. I can only go a few frames before I have to pause and say to my kids...I REMEMBER THAT!

Thanks for more time travel.....just amazing ! Thank god somebody had the good sense to capture these moving images for posterity

Thank you so much for posting this. This video is so precious. My parents were living there in that area at the same time of this video. As I became older, the more I pestered them about different aspects of not just Hollywood but the metro side of Los Angeles. Both my dad became a cop there and my mom worked at one of the record companies in the late 1960's throughout the 1970's. I tried to go there in the late 1980's and early 1990's for different events and they would not allow it. They would NOT budge. The gang and violent crime activity was so bad in the late 80's and early 90's that going to a concert at the Hollywood Palladium, Whiskey, Troubador, or the Inglewood Forum was forbidden. I had to sneak it a couple of times for some bands though that were just to huge to pass up, a whole other story. They have said it and in so many ways how badly that area has been destroyed not just with urban blight and physical damage, but politically, socially, mentally, crime, and economically. Even my dad said that if he was a young man again today, there is absolutely no amount of money you could pay him to be a police officer in Los Angeles and especially Hollywood again. And he is a big dude who went in with military and years of martial arts training. To say that today's Hollywood is completely different than the Hollywood in this video is just not going to do it. The Hollywood in this video compared to the Hollywood of today are two completely different and separate dimensions and on top of that many light years apart. Another thing they said is different racial groups got along. This "woke" virus mentality did not continue to drive wedges between people. You could get a great paying job...and keep it for 30 years, own a home, and car with just a High School Diploma. I honest to God don't know where the happy medium is with the past and the present. Sorry for the ramble people. It just that even as man in my late forties, I will not go there anymore after being attacked several times. Very chaotic universe in Hollywood. If you have to be a movie/tv/ music star, just be aware that fame and fortune cannot escape the hell of that place. Be careful and God bless you all with the best.

Amazing job! The amount of technical improvement is just astounding. Magnifique!!

Thanks for this beautiful video! I was born in June 1952 here in L.A. and it's nice to look at the way things were back then.

I love how much cleaner the city was.

Amazing. Surprising how many of the old buildings are still there. So clean, so well maintained..

Love the cars, the buildings, the clothing, everything! What a magical time

Thanks for the valuable experience. I am always impressed by the beauty of your images!

Perfection! Great footing, simply fantastic! A+ film. 👍🤟♥️💝💖🤛💪🍀🌹

I lived in LA around this time. Sunset has changed so much that its hardly recognizable but this is what it looked like. Some of Hollywood was very beautiful. Our family had a studebaker much like the one in the early footage. A very distinctive looking car.

Excellent. My favorite time travel channel. And a clean city back then! Of course, all the cars are nowadays classics. It’s a sobering thought to stop and think that most of those drivers and people on the street are now gone.

A lot of street rod/restomod projects in that clip, thanks for the memories!

The only, most truthful and closest thing to time-traveling, I guess!! Thank you sincerely for posting this precious, little gem! ♥️ from L.A., CA🇺🇸 08/29/'22

You always have something amazing to post! 8:20 Greenblatts still there. Across the street the famous Schwabs drugstore, gone, now a shopping center.

Utterly fascinating! I've driven this street so many times and to see it with wide open spaces and virtually no traffic is astounding! Strange how it looks so different and the same simultaneously! Thanks Nass!

For a second, I thought I was looking at recently filmed dashcam footage. The restoration of this film is breathtaking.

An excellent film restoration. I was great looking at this time capsule of LA from the 50's. I lived there from '81 thru '96, and I loved seeing some of the same buildings and venues in this film that I remember so well from when I got to LA 30 years later--and that are still there today.

Wow - the billboard at 4:50 for Hancock Gasoline - that kid is terrifying!! 👹 There is so much to see in this one, I'm going to have to watch it a few times. I so love all the billboards and the old gas station signs. Great job once again! 👍

The newest car I see is a 51, and lots of them. Imagine driving around back then! Many pre-war cars still on the road, too. I'd love to look around the used car lot they passed.

Thank you for all your hard work to bring to this to the world I love your efforts and of course the films I hope you great success!!

5:54 According to the LA Times, "Singin' in the Rain" and "The Pride of St. Louis" played together at the Oriental Theatre (7425 Sunset Blvd) for just four days: 11-14 June 1952 (Wed thru Sat), so the film must've been shot on one of those days. (It's a Guitar Center now.)

I like to watch these side by side with going down the road on Google Maps. I love seeing how much HASN'T changed. I squeal with delight seeing a shop front or home that is still standing.

What a gem! Sure was cleaner and prettier back then. Even the cars spoke class! I'm sorry to have missed this era as im 50 and born in the 70s. I can just imagine " from this video" strolling down the sidewalks or cruising the strip and waving to Elvis or any of the big name stars that resided there! Oh to have seen Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Beach Boys, Fats Domino's, the list goes on! What a treat this video is. Thank you.

Amazing work! Thanks for opening the time portal!

Wow, another great You Were/Are There vid. Good job-and thank you for these, Rick! I gotta say: these videos are evocative to the point that you feel like you're there. And the cars were all so curved back then, like big cute stuffed animals embracing the asphalt.

Another Great Job NASS. The camera man got better close-ups of the cars on this one, and traveling at a more observable speed too. I'd like to take a Month Long Vacation and go back there for a while.

I Love watching these 1950's and 1940's Los Angeles videos with music from that time period. It is extremely relaxing. Keep them coming!

Thank you for uploading this for people to see!

I recently played L.A. Noire and found a lot of similar moments! Great video!

Watching this I had moments of flashbacks to the mid sixty's as a kid riding in the back of our old station wagon. I so miss that feeling! Thanks for creating and sharing this video!

What a magnificent video. So clear and sharp with this one, almost like it was just filmed. I honestly can't watch these straight through. There's so many wonderful sights, the cars, people, great neon signs, I find myself continually hitting the pause button to examine everything. What a wonderful era. Just 2 years after one of my favorite films, Sunset Boulevard was made.

Amazing. Who knows how many times I've driven that route in my lifetime. I watched it along side with Google maps street view, fun to see some of the buildings still there on the North side of Sunset. Thanks!

OMG! If I’m seeing this all correctly … Wow, what a change! I spent so much time driving up and down Sunset to clubs starting in 1980 till … now really, going to live shows. Punk Rock / New Wave, House, Acid, Rock, etc. started it all, but to see the transformation! It’s like 1/3rd of anything is built. And what is built then has been replaced almost entirely. Stop lights? Way too much traffic? All these Nash’s, Hudson’s, Packard’s, Ford’s, etc are just lumbering along. So much more frantic, fast paced, and crowded now. Which is what Hollywood is, you get used to it. But damn, what a cool trip back in time. Love the huge Pep Boys right near the beginning :-) Great video!

“Old car dealers never die, they just trade away.” Great billboard there.

There is so much to see in this video - it starts at Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood, moving past Wilcox Avenue heading west, all the time looking east. Checking on Google Street View I see many buildings are still there but today, it's more high rise with more traffic. I love the bit where the Studebaker stops directly in front of the camera. Reminds me of the line in 'Virginia Plain' by Roxy Music 'to where my Studebaker takes me...' Further west, at 10:43, where Sunset Blvd bends to the left, there is the Sunset Tower Hotel, opened in 1931, patronised by famous stars including John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and David Bowie, one of the finest art deco buildings in the USA. Sounds like I know LA well but I don't! I only visited once for two days! I'm getting to know it better now thanks to your movies! Many thanks NASS, great job!

Wow this is so amazing to see remastered it almost looks as good as video today. I wish they’d apply this technique to all different kinds of video from the past where the footage was poor, it really helps those of us see this time period way before we were even born as it was, and not picture it as some ancient era without any color.

Damn good camera taking this recording back in the 50s. Camera man knows how to keep picture steady too. Fantastic quality! Unreal.

Absolutely phenomenal. The vehicles were unique and everything was so clean The MAGESTIC palm 🌴 tree's are so scenic. I feel as if I lived through this era! Just magical. Thank you friend for the upload its a time machine indeed. 💗

I truly admire your dedication here and attention to detail. People don't realize the effort this takes. Really enjoyed this, takes me way back!

This is insane!!!! Fantastic job!!! I particularly liked when 'we' pass Sunset and Laurel Canyon, where you can spot the legendary Schwabb's Drugstore, So, so, cool.

That just blew my mind. I felt like I was in a time machine.! I could go on and on, but you would probably think I’m nuts. Great job on the remaster of that original. 1114pc

Every time I watch these, I feel like I'm in a time machine. Some of the older ones are kind of depressing to me, knowing that everyone is dead now. But, so well done, I am mesmerized, and watch anyway.! Great content and thank you.

Какие шикарные автомобили! Отличный фильм, как будто на машине времени попал туда.

love your work man...keep it up...you make time travel possible

I love these videos so much absolutely amazing thankyou

When L.A was still dream land. Oh, how much it has changed .

Seeing these old cars reminds me of my early years growing up. These were the cars that I was surrounded by in my home town. I was born in 1948. I own a 1948 Chrysler and a 1952 Ford pickup. Good times.

This is some of the Greatest work you've done.

at 0:45 you can see a modified 1940 mercury, the owner of that car probably loved it very much to have it in such great shape 12 years after it came out. Awesome footage!

That was an incredible journey and the recoloring was well done. However, the fake horn blast really detracted from a great video.. thanks for sharing.

Everything looked so much cooler (and cleaner) back then. America's golden years. We'll never see days like those again.

This is fast becoming my favourite channel .

I was born in this era... 1952, in Oakland. I appreciate your effort to bring the old movies to life. I do wish the colors were a little more saturated, as a lot of otherwise brown or dark cars appear purplish. But you did a great job. Thanks.

Amazing! You did a beautiful job restoring this from the original! I love how candid this is; it's not staged! Several things I noticed: how minimal the traffic lights were, how drivers in the left-turn lane would not really wait for a break in oncoming traffic (as is the rule today) but rather push through, and then three cars would take advantage and go together. (This seems more akin to the modern-day traffic of dense Asian cities.) Drivers didn't use their turn signals as often. (Maybe some cars didn't have them?) At 6:08 the driver who thought he could parallel-park front-first. Most of the cars there look under 10 years old, whereas today (in 2022) there are still many cars on the road from the 1990s and 2000s (i.e. 20-30 years old). I played the film at 1.25x speed (as another commenter suggested) and found the motion more believable.

Amazing footage! I could watch these videos all day. The clarity and sound on this one was absolutely spectacular. Thank you!

Watching this in awe thinking about my parents, who were just 5 and 8 when this was filmed! Absolutely incredible!

Loving these videos!!! They are before my time, but my late father used to tell me about these times and places. I've been going to google maps to see how much has changed from then to now. Very interesting! You might want to include links to the location on google maps. AWESOME!!!

I've been on Sunset Blvd many times but I'd had never experienced this parade of old beautiful shiny classics, if I had a wish and if it was possible I let them throw my ashes in that era!

This is when my grandfather was in his heyday! William King. He owned Crown Signs and painted a huge amount of the signage around L.A. He has to have at least a dozen or two of the signs that are shown in this video!

I can’t explain it but I found myself very moved watching these videos. All these people now gone and the way of life they lived. Bitter sweet.